Re: PATCH: anonymous functions (no documentation yet)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:06:36PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > > Out of interest, how does it affect:
> > >   ""() { ... }
> > 
> > That also turns into an empty argument list that is ignored.  I would
> > have to check why since my first guess was it would produce an invalid
> > empty function name.
> 
> Well,
> 
> ""() echo test
> ''
> 
> Does echo "test".

You're right; I didn't try it out.  I'd forgotten functions (unlike
variables) could be called absolutely any string of characters.

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